Eugene Huskey

Encounters at the Edge of the Muslim World (eBook, ePUB)

A Political Memoir of Kyrgyzstan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This unique work provides the only sustained political history of independent Kyrgyzstan, explaining events in the context of its society and the broader international order. Drawing on three decades of personal encounters with ordinary citizens and leading public figures, Eugene Huskey takes readers on a journey through the unlikely birth and tumultuous development of Central Asia's most open society. Starting with the heady, romantic first days of independence and moving through the popular uprisings and inter-ethnic violence of recent years, he chronicles the struggles of a new state to establish a democratic order and to find its place in the international community, while caught between China, the Middle East, and the Russian world. At the center are the very human stories of leaders and citizens trying to navigate the transition from communism, where identities, property, and the rules of the political game were constantly in dispute. With citizens of independent Kyrgyzstan stripped of their Soviet identity, the book illustrates how alternative loyalties based on kinship, geography, statehood, and religion competed for prominence in ways that often complicated the new country's political, social, and economic development.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538117095
• Artikelnr.: 56799142

Autorenporträt

Eugene Huskey is William R. Kenan, Jr., Chair in Political Science at Stetson University. His research on Kyrgyzstan first took him to the country in 1992, six months after Kyrgyzstan's emergence as an independent state. He has been back to Kyrgyzstan ten times since then to conduct research, teach at the American University of Central Asia, train Kyrgyzstani political scientists, and participate in a mission for the International Center for Transitional Justice.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Preface and Acknowledgments
Note on Usage
1 Conversations with Bolot
2 From Moscow to Bishkek (or Kirgizia, Kirgizstan, Kyrgyzstan)
3 The Present Is History
4 Hope Abounds
5 Traveling the Chu Valley: Last Stop, the President's Office
6 The Power of Words
7 Kyrgyzstan Goes to the Polls
8 Central Asia through Students' Eye
9 Falsification and Conciliation
10 Borders and Regions Bedevil a President
11 The Tulip Revolution
12 The Revolution Betrayed
13 Fear Stalks the Land
14 Talk of Kinship, Gender, and Islam
15 Taking the Lonely Road Home
16 The Netherworld of the Opposition
17 Bakiev Falls, Washington Reacts
18 Revolutionary Legality versus Transitional Justice
19 June 2010: The Month That Remade a Country
20 "We Either Have Fair Elections, or We Have Violence"
21 First Steps on the Parliamentary Road
22 Without Abuse, Power Loses Its Charm
23 Goodbye to Manas
24 In Osh the Past Is Never Dead
25 Preparing for a Presidential Afterlife
26 A Stan Like No Other
Notes
Selected Bibliography
About the Author